Tyndall Centre PhD Student wins GBIF Award

Amy McDougall, a PhD student in the Tyndall Centre at the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, has won one of the two first Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Young Researchers' Awards.

The award was created to encourage graduate students to make use of data that are enabled through the GBIF network, to encourage innovative biodiversity research, and to reward excellence. Amy's proposal is entitled “Bridging the Gap in a Climate Changed World: Is Conservation Planning by Taxa a Realistic Aim?” Amy's PhD supervisors are Dr. Rachel Warren and Dr. William Cheung.

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